{"id":346255,"date":"2025-05-13T12:52:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T16:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/?p=346255"},"modified":"2025-05-13T12:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T16:52:18","slug":"panthers-vs-maple-leafs-best-bets-game-5-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/panthers-vs-maple-leafs-best-bets-game-5-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers vs. Maple Leafs best bets Game 5: Bet on Toronto&#8217;s offence to click, Matthews to rack up shots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs and Florida Panthers&#8217; series returns north of the border tied 2-2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The pregame narrative:<\/strong> The home team has won every game so far, but Florida is favoured on Wednesday after shutting out Toronto in Game 4. The Maple Leafs have scored in bunches at home but are still waiting on a breakout performance from their captain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/nhl\/players\/auston_matthews\">Auston Matthews<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out my Panthers vs. Maple Leafs best bets for Game 5 of the second round, featuring Matthews and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/nhl\/players\/sam_bennett\">Sam Bennett<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Panthers vs. Maple Leafs best bets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Best Bet: Maple Leafs over 2.5 goals (-137)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toronto was horrible on Sunday night. There&#8217;s no hiding that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Leafs took four penalties in the first period and struggled to get anything going after that as the Panthers protected a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;m optimistic they can rebound on home ice for a few reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Toronto has scored 3+ goals in 8 of 10 games this postseason, netting nine total goals against Florida at home in Games 1 and 2. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Leafs are 11-1 in their last 12 home games dating back to the regular season. They averaged 3.83 goals in those contests and cleared this line nine times. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Sergei Bobrovsky is coming off a shutout victory, which may give bettors pause about backing Toronto on this market. But he wasn&#8217;t tested much in the first two periods and had given up three-plus goals in five of six games before Game 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The netminder owns a shaky .888 SV% this postseason and ranks 17th out of 26 goalies in MoneyPuck&#8217;s goals saved above expected per 60. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key stat:<\/strong> Toronto has cleared this mark in three straight home games against Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"cacheembed:113717\">Embed: #113717<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/sports-hub\/ice_hockey\/nhl?utm_source=insights&amp;utm_medium=text_link&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=sportsbook_nhl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Full NHL betting markets<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/article\/nhl-injury-report?utm_source=insights&amp;utm_medium=text_link&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=injury_reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>NHL injury report<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/nhl\/top-skaters?utm_source=insights&amp;utm_medium=text_link&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=stats_pages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>NHL stats &amp; standings<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Game 5 picks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Matthews over 3.5 shots on goal (-110):<\/strong> I would love to back Matthews to score on Wednesday, but I need to see a puck go in the net first. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toronto&#8217;s captain has been doing a lot of things right, playing great defence and taking a <em>ton <\/em>of shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He ranks second among all playoff skaters in shot attempts this postseason (75), netting out to 7.5 per game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem? Only 35 of those have hit the net. Matthews has three-plus shots in seven straight games, but has gone 2-5 against this line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll choose to take a glass-half-full approach here, though, and bank on some positive regression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bennett to record a point (-113):<\/strong> I&#8217;m honestly shocked you can back Bennett at this price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The physical winger has wreaked havoc on this series from the moment he ran into Anthony Stolarz in Game 1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to getting under Toronto&#8217;s skin, he&#8217;s found the stat sheet in three of four games with two goals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bennett is second to Sam Reinhart in shots (29), shot attempts (54) and xG (3.63) this postseason, going 7-2 against this line since the start of Round 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Panthers vs. Maple Leafs best bets made at 11:57 a.m. ET 05\/13\/2025.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs and Florida Panthers&#8217; series returns north of the border tied 2-2. The pregame narrative: The home team has won every game so far, but Florida is favoured on Wednesday after shutting out Toronto in Game 4. The Maple Leafs have scored in bunches at home but are still waiting on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":346263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sidebar_plugin_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-346255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nhl","tag-nhl"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Panthers vs. Maple Leafs best bets: Game 5 odds and picks | NSB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out our Game 5 Panthers vs. Maple Leafs best bets. 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